Seasonal Chart Analysis

Analysis of the Heritage Financial Corp. (NASD:HFWA) seasonal charts above shows that a Buy Date of May 5 and a Sell Date of August 7 has resulted in a geometric average return of 5.16% above the benchmark rate of the S&P 500 Total Return Index over the past 20 years. This seasonal timeframe has shown positive results compared to the benchmark in 15 of those periods. This is a good rate of success and the return strongly outperforms the relative buy-and-hold performance of the stock over the past 20 years by an average of 2.62% per year.

The seasonal timeframe correlates Poorly with the period of seasonal strength for the Financial sector, which runs from November 22 to April 13. The seasonal chart for the broad sector is available via the following link: Financial Sector Seasonal Chart.

Heritage Financial Corp is a bank holding company. The company through its subsidiary provides commercial lending and deposit relationships with small businesses and their owners in its market areas and attracting deposits from the general public.

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Disclaimer: Jon Vialoux is a registered Associate Portfolio Manager at CastleMoore Inc. Comments and opinions offered in this website are for information only. They should not be considered as advice to purchase or to sell mentioned securities. Data offered in this report is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed.